Valentine's Day On the Road

Happy Valentine’s Day!  What a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day ... by driving all day.

Well, not quite all day.  We did make a couple of stops.

After loading up on fuel in Terra Haute, Indiana, we left the interstate to take the parallel US-40 towards Indianapolis.  Lower speed limit, went through some small towns, some with traffic lights, and, best of all, very few trucks.   We eventually ended up back on I-70 into Indianapolis and made our first stop at Ikea in Fishers on the northeast side of Indianapolis.

Ikea was the first Valentine’s day stop.  We stop whenever we can at Ikea and pick up dark chocolate.  Only this time we found out that the price nearly doubled.  We may have to find a new source for dark chocolate.  We came away with six chocolate bars instead of our usual dozen.  We did manage to get a good walk in, though.  It’s probably a couple miles to go through the entire Ikea maze.

Next Valentine’s Day stop was at Deb’s favorite shop in the Indianapolis area:  the Cake Bake Shop in Carmel, Indiana.  This is a high-end cake shop that we usually end up at when we travel through here.  Deb’s Valentine’s Day treat was a slice of Gwendolyn's Famous Earl's Court Chocolate Cake.  Mine was a Chocolate Chip Cookie with Fleur de Sel.

Always an experience driving through here in an RV, with the narrow streets and roundabouts.  Rather than try to find parking in front of the store, we parked in the parking lot of the Methodist Church a block away and walked to the store.  It was the right decision.  Quite a few people were here for Valentine’s Day and there was no place even for a small car.

We sampled our treats right there in the Methodist Church parking lot (OK, I ate the entire cookie), and then headed north on US-31, stopping at Jackson Morrow Park in Kokomo, Indiana, to walk the trails and to make dinner.  After another walk after dinner, we took the short drive to the Cracker Barrel in Kokomo to park for the night.

288 Miles today.  Not really a lot, but we did spend some time at Ikea and arrived fairly early in Kokomo.  Tomorrow it’s visiting a few stores in Shipshewana, Indiana, then home.  Then it’s the mad dash to winterize the RV and remove anything that can freeze before the temperature drops below freezing.